Words, not swords : Iranian women writers and the freedom of movement /
Farzaneh Milani.
Bok Engelsk 2011 Farzaneh. Milani,· Electronic books
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| Utgitt | Syracuse, N.Y. : : Syracuse University Press, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xxiv, 345 p. )
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Introduction: keeping women in their place -- A legacy of containment -- Enclosed bodies, trapped voices, framed images: the poetics of sex segregation -- The bonds of beauty: immobilizing the ideal woman in Iranian literature -- Pardeh Neshin, or "she who sits behind the screen": the spatial politics of Iranian cinema -- Wings and words -- Badasht and Seneca Falls: Taririh Qurratulayn and Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Icarus reborn: captivity and flight in the work of Forugh Farrokhzad -- The gypsy poet: fluidity and flux in the poetry of Simin Behbahani -- Women on the road: Shahrnush Parsipur and the conference of female birds -- Prisoners awaiting liberation -- Reading and misreading Iranian women in the United States: on abducted daughters, incarcerated girls, and invisible women -- Epilogue: words as ambassadors of peace and beacons of hope.
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| ISBN | 9780815632788
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